US1575057A - Floor dressing and polishing device - Google Patents

Description

March 2 1926.

- T. G. JOHNSON FLOOR DRESSING AND POLISHING DEVICE Filed April 18, 1924 L 3 Mucuioc 1726050716 61. (7072725072,

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Patented Mar. 2, 1926.

THEODORE G. JOHNSON, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

FLOOR DRESSING AND POLISHING DEVICE.

Application filed April 18, 1924. Serial No. 707,425.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Trrnononn G. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Floor Dressing and Polishing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for applying dressing to floors, and more especially to that class of floor finishing devices adapted to apply a filling material of wax or similar surface dressing.

One object of the invention is to provide a relatively simple, inexpensive and easily manipulated device of this character which may be used both as a waxing and polishing device.

In devices of this character thewax is usually employed in paste form and forced upon the floor through a rubbing cloth which acts as a strainer, permitting only the liquid ingredients to pass out while the desirable solids are retained in the device, so that little or no benefit is derived therefrom. I overcome the foregoing objection by providing a rubbing cloth, constituting one of the present features, with openings through which all of the ingredients are forced out upon the floor in a uniform manner so that none is retained to become wasted.

Another feature resides in fastening means which enable the cloth to be quickly applied or removed from the container of the device.

Other features will hereinafter appear, and in order that the invention may be fully understood reference will now be had to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the device with a portion of the handle broken away.

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of the de vice reversed and taken on line II-II of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the device reversed and taken on line IIIIII of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of a fastening device for holding the cloth in position.

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective View of a follower for forcing the material from the container out upon the floor.

Referring now in detail to the various parts, 2 designates a reversible container closed at its upper portion by a brush 4 and having an open bottom across which the rubbing cloth 6 is stretched. It is to be understood that the term cloth used throughout the description and claims includes fabric, leather or othersuitable material. The rubbing cloth 6 has perforations 8 through which the wax or other material A is pressed upon the floor by a follower 10 consisting preferably of cast iron or other metal to obtain the desired weight. The wax A is placed in a piece of cloth 12, the margins of which together with the margins of the rubbing cloth 6, are lapped over the reduced portion 18 of the container 2 and firmly secured iii-place by a metallic band 14 provided with a pair of oppositely-disposed resilient retainers 16 secured to said band 14 by pivots 18. The free ends of the retainer 16 are bent at right angles thereto and passed through openings 19 in the band and pointed as indicated at 20, so that they may be forced through the cloths 6 and 12 as shown by Fig. 2, and into recesses 22 formed in the adjacent sides of the container 2, as shown by Fig. 2. The band 14 may be further secured in place by set screws 23, threaded in said band and adapted to force the adjacent portions of the cloths 6 and "12 into recesses 15 formed in the ends of the container 2.

A rubber or other suitable bumper 24 is secured to each end of the container 2 to prevent the same from being pushed against the base board or furniture and defacing the same.

26 designates a handle of suitable length secured at its lower end to a bail 28, the lower ends of which are bent'inwardly to extend into recesses 30 in opposite sides of the container 2. Said lower ends of the band 28 are pivotally mounted upon a bolt 82 extending transversely through the container 2 and an intermediate depression 34 in the follower 10. The ends of the bolt 32, like the lower ends of the bail 28, are arranged in the recesses 30, so that they cannot contact with and mar the furniture.

In practice when wax is to 'be applied to the floor the container 2 is turned upside down, or in the position shown by Fig. 1, to bring its open bottom uppermost. A quantity of wax is then placed upon the cloth 12 which is pushed downwardly into the container 2 and upon the follower 10 which rests upon the back of the brush 4. The perforate rubbing cloth 6 is then placed Lil in position over the cloth 12, after which the margins of both cloths are folded over the sides of the container 2 and firmly se cured by pressing the band 1d downwardly in position, said band being proportioned to fit friction-tight over the margins of the cloths 6 and 12. The pointed ends 20 of the retaining devices 16 are then directed through the openings 19 and into the recesses 22, thereby holding the cloths and the band l i firmly in position. The cloths 6 and 12 and the band 14 may be further secured by tightening the set screw. The container 2 is then turned over to the po-v sition disclosed by Figs. 2 and 3, so that the heavy follower 10 will rest upon the cloth 12 and force the war: A out through the perforations S of the cloth 6 as the device is rubbed back and forth over the floor. After the Wax has been spread over the floor the device is turned over so that the polishing operation may be carried out with the brush 4:. When a high polish is desired the polishing operation can be finished with a pad secured in position over the brush.

From the foregoing description. taken in connection with the drawings it will be readily understood that I have provided a device embodying the advanta es above pointed out, and while have shown and desTribeal the preferred construction, combination and arrangement of parts I reserve the to make such changes as properly fall Within the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim and desire to secure by Letters atent, is:

l. A device of the character described consisting of an open-bottom container, a handle to said container, a rubbing cloth stretched across said open-bottom and folded against the sides and ends of said container, a band fitting around said container to hold the folded portions'of said cloth, and a retaining device mounted at each side of said band and having a terminal to enter a recess in the container and hold said band iniposition on said container.

2. A device of the character described consisting of an open-bottom container, .a handle to said container, a rubbing cloth stretched across said open-bottom and folded against the sides and ends of said container, :1 band. fitting around said container to hold the folded portions said cloth, and spring retaining devices pivoted at one end to said band and pointed at their opposite end and bent to pass through openings in the band and engage said container.

3. A device of the character described con sisting of an open-bottom container, a l andle to said container, a perforated rubbing cloth stretched across said opcn-b "tom and folded against the sides and ends of said container, a band fitting around said container to hold the folded portions of said cloth, and retaining' devices for holding said band in position on'said container.

4:. In a device of the character described an open-bottom container, :1 rubbing cloth stretched across the open bottom and secured to said container and having openings therein, a band fitting around said container to hold the folded portions of said cloth, and spring retaining devices pivoted at one end to said band and pointed at their opposite end and bent to pass through openings in the band and engage said container.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

THEODORE G. JOHNSON.

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